Xinhua, China's state news agency, introduced to the world, its first Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based newsreaders who made their debut at the fifth World Internet Conference held in east China's Zhejiang Province.

Viewers here were greeted by a digitised version of a Xinhua news anchor named Qiu Hao. Dressed in a pin-striped suit with a red tie the AI-based news anchor can "accompany you 24 hours a day, 365 days a year." He said, "I can be endlessly copied and present at different scenes to bring you the news."